Chapter 173 - 173: Touchwood
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Qiao Mai divided her share into six portions. She kept one for herself, gave one to Yuan Jiaqi, one to Chuan ‘er, one to the Fengyun brothers, and one to Ling’er.
If they thought it was spicy, they could switch with others. It could also be considered as giving them something fun to do.
Just as people were busy preparing for the new year, the weather changed overnight.
It started snowing heavily again. In the past two months, it had snowed several times. Qiao Mai stood at the door and looked at the dark sky.
The whiter the ground was, the darker the sky looked.
“Looks like it’s going to be another blizzard!”
She quickly got Yue Hong to run errands and ordered everyone in the Qiao family to be in a state of emergency.
Other than the elderly and children, the rest were not allowed to sleep soundly. They had to change shifts in pairs and check the poultry house and the vegetable garden every two hours.
After checking the roof and clearing the snow in four hours, she cursed in her heart.
The snow had not even melted yet, but another had come. It was enough to become a snow disaster.
Was the heavens testing her patience? If this continued, the harvest next year would be worrying.
Qiao Mai gritted her teeth and cursed the heavens. Damn it. At this rate, there might be a flood next year.
She quickly spat on the ground. “Touchwood! I should hope for only the best.”
Qiao Mai bit her lips and looked at the space. There were already 50 million acres of land. Her cultivation was now at the second level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and her spiritual and soul power was twice as strong as before.
Now that she could cultivate 20,000 acres of land at once, it was not impossible for her to move the snow in.
Since she had this idea, she would do it.
Qiao Mai cleared out a 100-acre, three-meter-deep pit in the pasture with her mind, thinking that she needed to move the black soil elsewhere.
She did not expect the space would automatically spread out a deep pit according to her will instead of opening up on the spot.
In other words, she had an extra 100 acres of crater in the center of the ranch.
She looked inside, but there was nothing. Black soil was all around, making the three-meter-deep pit feel like an abyss.
Qiao Mai walked around her courtyard. The snow mountains she passed by disappeared in the blink of an eye and appeared in the huge pit.
Lucky Garden wasn’t considered big. It was about 30 acres, and there were several snow mountains inside. She had moved them in.
Qiao Mai bit her lip, intending to stop after filling the 100-acre pit. She kept her word.
She cleaned up her house first and then went to the Lu family.
In the middle of the night, she was like a dancing elf, jumping on the roofs and collecting snow from house to house.
She even collected the accumulated snow on both sides of the official road. It was about to become a snow disaster. She could not stand by, knowing she had the ability to stop it.
At most, if there was a drought somewhere, she would just move the snow out and turn it into water before returning it to the place.
With her speed, she had collected all the snow from the towns in the north and south overnight.
Only then did she fill up the 100-acre pit. When Qiao Mai returned home, she willed the snow piled up into mountains in the pit to melt into water. The space’s purification function was activated immediately, and the snow water became clear. One could see the bottom at a glance.
Qiao Mai reached out and touched it. The water was as cold as a pond. Without her will, it would always maintain this temperature. In other words, it would not become warm without her command.
Qiao Mai smiled. It seemed that she was a master with authority.
With a thought, the water slowly began to warm up. At this time, she was in high spirits and quickly bought live fish, shrimp, and crabs from the platform to raise them in the water.
She didn’t buy too many to let them reproduce on their own.
Qiao Mai had a strange habit. She never ate any of the living creatures she raised. She raised the fish to make the water lively.
Right, lotus roots. She bought some lotus seeds on the platform and planted them as well.
Just as she thought about whether the pond would expand like her fields, she saw the entire pond trembling.
Her eyes widened. The pond was expanding in a way visible to the naked eye.
“Oh my god, if I knew you could expand like this, I would have made you bigger long ago.”
She could raise lotus roots, fish, prawns, crabs, and others in the two hundred acres of pond. The food chain must be arranged well. Otherwise, they will multiply out of control.
This night was not in vain. Qiao Mai had wanted to provide disaster relief, but she did not expect to have an additional 100 acres of water. It was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
The space began to shake at this moment, just like the previous upgrade.
Qiao Mai screamed in her heart,” F * ck, it’s leveling up. I didn’t expect to bring in a hundred acres of snow and let the realm level up. Isn’t it just farming to expand the area? I don’t understand this space.”
It didn’t matter if she didn’t understand. It was good that she had the space. This was her cheat code. As long as she had it, everything would be easy.
Qiao Mai only stayed in the space for a while before she pulled out her consciousness. The snow outside was getting heavier.
That night, she went out a few times to add charcoal to the children’s house and firewood to the stove. She walked around the courtyards.
She even secretly went to the warehouse to replenish her supplies.
It was even heavier than the first snow and lasted longer. It was still snowing until the 30th of the year, and the people’s eyes turned red.
It was especially so for those disaster victims who had migrated from the south. They had just suffered from the flood. Now, they had to suffer from the snow disaster. They had no tears left to cry.
Mayor Qian was also anxious. He immediately organized the wealthy families in the town to clear the snow. As long as the road was cleared, they would start the rescue.
The village chiefs also brought along the villagers who had a certain degree of labor ability and began to save themselves.
They had to shovel the snow on the road first. As long as the road was clear, they could send someone out to ask for help. Qiao Mai asked Yuan Jiaqi to bring people to shovel the snow while she checked the grain in the warehouse.
There were still more than 10,000 catties of grain left from the batch handed over by the tenants in the autumn. She collected a few more batches of grain from the space and filled the warehouse.
Then, she got someone to call the mayor and ask them to deliver food and firewood to the nearby villages.
Nearly half of the Qiao family’s grain and firewood was donated. Mayor Qian was grateful to Qiao Mai from the bottom of his heart. Without her, who knew how many people would have died this year?
However, he added,” Girl, should we give these to the Yuan, Qiao, and Tian families?”
“Yes, every family has a share. Although I hate them, I don’t want their lives.”
“With your words, I know what to do.”
At the same time, the prefecture and county cities had also launched a rescue operation. It was likely that everyone would not have a happy year.
Although everyone in the Qiao family ate dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was no festive atmosphere at all.
After greeting each other, they went their separate ways.
Fortunately, the magistrate of Wei City was wealthy. Madam Wang took the lead and donated 100,000 taels of silver. The merchants in the city donated money, and some even gave porridge. All of them supported Wang Zongsheng
The county magistrate of Yi County did not do anything. He shouted for donations every day, but the commoners did not see any supplies. They were all extremely anxious.
After Qiao Mai heard about this, she went to the county magistrate’s residence that night.
The next day, this scum began to send people to transport relief supplies to the villages.
Not only that, he had also donated a thousand taels of silver.
Many people felt that the sun had risen from the west. It was rare to see corrupt officials so generous.
To be honest, if Qiao Mai hadn’t seen the disaster in the north and that no one would be in charge if he were killed, she would have killed him directly.
There were so many people waiting to save their lives, but he wanted to embezzle the relief money donated to the disaster victims.
He deserved to be killed!
Later, Old Mistress Wang told her about the county magistrate.
“Girl, his backer is a prince of the Imperial Court. As long as he doesn’t make a big mistake, Zonsheng can’t do anything to him. After all, he’s only a fourth-rank official. Even Old Master Wang can’t do anything..”
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